Miss Constance Elizabeth Bryer
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1870
Died: 1952
Place of birth: Islington, Middlesex, England
Occupation: Musician (violinist)
Main Suffrage Society: WSPU
Other Societies: CLWS
Society Role: Secretary (Islington WSPU)
Arrest Record: Yes
Recorded Entries: 4
Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2012/dec/06/suffragette-autograph-album-pictures#img-3
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)
Additional Information: Constance gave up her studies as a musician to campaign for votes for women. She was a member of the WSPU and the Church League for Women's Suffrage (CLWS). Between 1911 and 1913, she acted as secretary for the North Islington, London, branch of the WSPU. She was present on 'Black Friday' in 1910 and was arrested for obstruction, though she was later discharged. In 1911, she illegally 'evaded' the goverment census survey by staying away from her family home at 49 Tuffnell Park Road, London when officials called to gather information. She was arrested again in 1911 while taking part in a WSPU demonstration against the 'torpedoing' of the Conciliation Bill, and sentenced to five days in prison. Undeterred, she was arrested again in 1912 for taking part in the WSPU's window-smashing raid (she targeted Regent Street in London), and was this time sentenced to four months' imprisonment, which she served in Winson Green, Birmingham. She took part in a hunger strike there with other suffragette prisoners.